The Uncle

The Uncle

Would you let me out of this hell?

2019•1h 39m•6.0/10

DramaThrillerMystery

Ratings

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6.0/10(11)

The life of Ipse, a 19-year-old girl who cannot get out of her own bed due to psychological trauma, is as motionless as a plant. Having no family and no clue of her family's mysterious history, she lives completely dependent on her neighbors, but starts to feel suffocated under the abuse and the looks she gets as if she was something to be eaten up. One day, in the midst of her hellish everyday life, a stranger comes to her house.

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Production

Jin Film

Language

KO

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Chung Ye-jin

Chung Ye-jin

Ip-sae / Ip-sae's mother

Kang Shin-hyo

Kang Shin-hyo

Uncle

Kang Shin-chul

Kang Shin-chul

Jo Kang-sik

Ko Kyu-phil

Ko Kyu-phil

Section Chief Kim

No Ji-yoo

No Ji-yoo

Ja-yeong

Jung Whee

Jung Whee

San-man

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